Chapter 779 Dark Butterfly
Gu Lou's abdomen swelled up, and he suddenly turned over and lay on the ground vomiting.
Zhou Wen saw Gu Lou vomiting a lot of white stuff. After taking a closer look, he almost vomited as well. What Gu Lou vomited out turned out to be many maggots, which were still wriggling on the ground.
Gu Lou vomited out more and more bugs, and the people who saw it all felt their scalps tingling. Some of them were worried that they would end up like Gu Lou.
After vomiting for a while, Gu Lou vomited out the centipede-like insect, and the swollen abdomen also subsided. He looked much better, but his face was terribly pale.
"Master Gu, what's going on with Gu Lou?" Li Mobai asked.
They had just looked around and didn't find anything wrong. The sudden incident in Gu Lou also made them very uneasy.
"Don't worry, it's not a problem with the Flower of Life. Someone put a poisonous insect in his body, and I have killed him." Gu Shanshui stretched out his hand, and the centipede-like insect flew to his hand, and something fell from its claws.
It was a bug the size of a grain of rice. It really looked like a grain of rice. Most people couldn't tell that it was a bug.
"This is a relatively common rice Gu. Although it's only at the legendary level, it's mixed in with rice grains and can easily be accidentally ingested by an opponent. Once inside the body, it uses its rapidly multiplying internal energy to destroy the body from the inside, making it difficult for outsiders to dispel it."
Gu Shanshui paused and continued, "The rice insect's movement speed is slow, and its attack power isn't very strong, so it's difficult for it to directly enter the body. It must have been mixed into the bamboo bucket of rice that Gu Lou brought before we arrived, and it was only after he ate that the rice insect invaded his body."
As he said that, Gu Shanshui asked Gu Lou and Gu He to check everything they brought. Sure enough, he found some rice poisonous insects in the rice in their bamboo buckets, and a poisonous insect thinner than a hair in the kettle.
Gu Shanshui told them that it was also a legendary poisonous insect called the bone-boring insect, which could easily kill a person if it invaded the body. It would drill into the bone cavity and reproduce in large numbers, gnawing on the bones until all the bones were eaten up.
Zhou Wen breathed a sigh of relief. They hadn't eaten the rice in the bamboo bucket or drunk the water, and now they didn't want to eat or drink at all.
Several people also handed their belongings to Gu Shanshui for inspection. Fortunately, there was nothing wrong with their food and water.
"It seems that someone did these things before we set off. Master Gu, do you know who did it?" Li Mobai asked.
Gu Shanshui shook his head and said, "No one in our Gu family would do such a thing, because they all know that these poisonous insects can't deal with me."
Li Mobai fell into deep thought. If they were not from the Gu family, then it was possible that they were not targeting Gu Shanshui and the others. The scope was too large and it was difficult to guess.
"Master Gu, is there any way to prevent these poisonous insects?" Die asked.
She was a woman after all, and she was disgusted by the sight of Gu Lou vomiting maggots. If she were forced to vomit once more, she would rather die.
"There are countless poisonous insects in the southern area. It is easy to defend against one or several, but if you want to guard against all of them, you can only rely on your personal experience and judgment. However, if you have a legendary magical object that can restrain all poisons, then no matter what kind of poisonous insect it is, it will not dare to approach you." Gu Shanshui glanced at the bird on Zhou Wen's shoulder while speaking.
"What kind of magical object is that?" Die asked.
"The most famous one is the mythical ice silkworm Gu. If you have an ice silkworm Gu on your body, basically no other Gu would dare to approach you. Even if they dare to approach, they will be discovered by the ice silkworm Gu and killed directly. Most god-level Gu have similar effects, provided that you can tame it." Gu Shanshui said.
"Can't we just kill it and get the companion pet?" Die said.
"Some are allowed, some are not." Gu Shanshui said ambiguously.
"Why?" Die asked in confusion.
"Because living poisonous insects have experienced many battles, they have strong instincts, experience, a certain level of intelligence, and a sense of territory. But for companion pets, the intelligence may not be so high, and they lack combat experience and territorial awareness. Most of them need to be controlled by the owner to exert their power, and they will be much worse at preventing them in advance. Moreover, mythical poisonous insects may not necessarily produce companion pets, so it is more likely to be domesticated." Gu Shanshui said.
"Master Gu, do you have any mythical poisonous insects on you? Let them out and let us open our eyes." Die said.
"If I had them, I wouldn't need to ask Mr. Zhou to help me catch corpse worms. There are many people raising Gu in the Southern District, but very few actually have mythical-level Gu worms, and most of them should be in the Dugu family." Gu Shanshui seemed to be in high spirits and continued, "If Mr. Zhou can help me catch corpse worms this time, I will also have mythical-level Gu worms, and the Gu family will be considered the top of the Southern District."
Gu Shanshui checked everyone's belongings and found no more poisonous insects, so he continued on his way.
The flower river under the moonlight is so beautiful that it makes your heart tremble. When a breeze blows, the flowers sway, like ripples on the river.
Gu Shanshui sniffed hard, suddenly stopped, made a still gesture, and then looked towards the Flower River in the distance.
Zhou Wen and the others stopped and looked in the direction he was looking. They only saw a vast sea of flowers in front of them and didn't notice anything.
But the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and soon they saw some lights dancing and swimming above the Flower River in the distance.
Zhou Wen had a very strong listening ability and he quickly saw what it was.
That was not a light at all, but a large crystal-like butterfly. The butterfly was transparent all over, and there were many patterns inside its wings. Those patterns glowed with a cold ice-blue light, making it look even more dazzling.
When the ice-blue butterfly's wings vibrated, it caused a strong wind, creating layers of ripples on the flower river.
"That's... the Dark Butterfly..." When Gu Lou saw clearly that it was a butterfly, his already pale face turned completely pale in an instant.
Gu He next to him was not in a much better condition, his expression was also extremely ugly.
"No wonder no one who enters the Flower River can get out alive. There is actually a Dark Butterfly here..." Gu Shanshui said in a deep voice with a serious expression.
Although Zhou Wen didn't know what the Dark Butterfly was, he could tell from sensing the fluctuations of its vital energy that it was definitely a mythical dimensional creature.
"The legendary Netherworld Messenger, the Netherworld Butterfly that leads souls into the underworld?" Li Mobai had obviously heard of the name of the Netherworld Butterfly, and he stared at the butterfly and frowned.
Gu Shanshui whispered, "I've only heard of people encountering Nether Butterflies before, but that was in a mysterious dimension that's almost inaccessible to humans. I didn't expect there would be a Nether Butterfly here in Huahe. Our luck is really bad."
(End of this chapter)
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